This year the opportunity to shoot a deer with my GP-100 worked out but not as expected. I was hunting last week on private land with my brother and I started to see deer about eight o'clock. First two deer was a small spike chasing a doe. The doe didn't offer a shot and the buck was too small to burn a buck tag on. A few minutes later I missed a chip shot on another doe with my Contender pistol, still not sure how I did that. About thirty minutes after the miss, two does came trotting through the thick brush but wouldn't slow down enough to get the scoped Contender in action. I figured they weren't stopping so I eased the hammer down. As I lowered the pistol, the lead doe locked up like a bird dog on point and there I sat with a gun that I had to open/close to re-cock. I had my GP-100 laying next to where I was sitting but figured she would blast off like a rocket as soon as I reached for it. With nothing to lose, I eased my hand down and picked it up. The lead doe kept doing the head bob maneuver and she actually took a couple steps to try and get a better look. The few steps she took put her in a gap between some of the trees where I could see her shoulder better. I thumbed the hammer back on the .357, lined it up and squeezed off a shot at about 45 yards. Bullet hit her on near side shoulder and punched all the way through to just under the skin on the off side shoulder breaking her down in the front. She stumbled about 50 yards and crashed near the property boundary. I hustled down to were she crashed and shot her in the neck since it looked like she might get back up. During field dressing, I figured out it was a wasted shot since the first shot took out both lungs when it went through the shoulders. Load was a MP 359-640 cast with large hollow point (160gr) moving at a little over 1200fps. Bullet alloy was 50/50 alloy with a little tin to help fill out. Recovered bullet pieces weighed 84 grains. Pictures below are the inside of the near side shoulder where the bullet entered the ribs and where the bullet was recovered from the off side. Doe weighed 90lbs hog dressed and will make a lot of good meals. Overall very pleased with my first .357 deer.